[Japanese Internment]: DeWitt, John L.:

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HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEFENSE COMMAND AND FOURTH ARMY PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. PUBLIC PROCLAMATION NO. 6 [caption title]. Public Proclamation No. 6, signed in type by John L. DeWitt of the notorious Western Defense Command during World War II, setting a curfew for all persons of Japanese ancestry in the California exclusion zones and setting the groundwork for the imminent incarceration of all such persons in that area. The proclamation's seven articles require that: "all alien Japanese and persons of Japanese ancestry who are within the said California portion of Military Area No. 2, be and they are hereby prohibited from leaving that area for any purpose"; "No person of Japanese ancestry, whether alien or non-alien, who is now outside of Military Area No. 1 or outside of the said California portion of Military Area No. 2, shall enter either of said areas unless expressly authorized to do so by this headquarters"; and that "The hours between 8p.m. and 6a.m. are hereby designated as the hours of curfew....All persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien...shall, during the hours of curfew, be within their places of residence....At all times other than during the hours of curfew…all such persons shall be not more than 10 miles from their place of residence." Articles 4 and 5 exempt hospital patients, orphans, and the deaf or blind from the preceding orders, and permit persons of Japanese ancestry to visit post offices or courts which are more than ten mi

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